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...throwers in general hope to augment a strong overall showing at the heptagonals by the Crimson...
...move to augment the status of female undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe, the Undergraduate Council has opened a discussion of the fundamental relationship between the two colleges...
...believes that cloning is the technology that will finally make it possible to apply genetic engineering to humans. First, parents will want to banish inherited diseases like Tay-Sachs. Then they will try to eliminate predispositions to alcoholism and obesity. In the end, says Silver, they will attempt to augment normal traits like intelligence and athletic prowess...
...numbers went inexorably up. A source who worked on the film says the effects cost more than $30 million. Fox tried to hold the overall budget to $150 million, then to $175 million. It repeatedly asked Paramount to ante up a little more--to augment, for example, the music budget. Paramount declined. "They never helped the movie," Mechanic says. "Anytime something could have made things better, it was 'That's your problem.' " Stymied, Fox offered to give Paramount its money back and take over. Paramount didn't take the offer seriously. Rather than lose scenes he deemed essential, Cameron gave...
Second, by writing that Mandela should not have relations with "terrorists," Danilewitz grossly underestimates the value of dialogue in the international political setting. By maintaining a dialogue with such leaders, Mandela may be paving the way for better relations. Shunning Iran, Libya or Syria may do more to augment political violence than to diffuse it. Indeed, where would we be today in places like South Africa or Israel if warring parties had not agreed to sit down and talk with the enemy...